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Jean-Baptiste de Franssu

President of the Board of Directors
The Vatican Bank

Connect Belgium Keynote Speaker

Jean-Baptiste de Franssu is the President of the Board of l'Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR) or the Vatican bank since July 2014. Along with the board and the executive team he has led the bank through a complete transformation of its structure and its operation including the introduction of a faith consistent investment process for all its asset management activities.He is vice-chairman of Groupe La Française S.A, an asset management company that manages Euro 150 bn, chair its audit and risk committee and is a member of its HR and remuneration committee. He also sit on the board of some leading european family offices in Belgium and Italy.Jean-Baptiste sits on the board of the French press group, groupe Bayard.He is also a member of the board of the foundation of the French catholic TV KTO. In 2023 he became the chair of the board of the ITI ,the International Theological Institute and Catholic university of Austria. In 2024 he was named chair of the board of the Collège des Bernardin, the most prestigious catholic faculty and cultural center in France.Up to the end of 2011 he was Chief Executive Officer of Invesco Europe and a member of Invesco’s worldwide executive committee. Prior to Invesco he worked at Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations in France where he started his career.In June 2009 he was elected President of the European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA) during a time of profound worldwide regulatory changes following the 2008 financial crisis. In 2009 he was elected European fund industry personality of the year by Funds Europe magazine. He has, over the years, contributed articles and advice to many publications, industry working groups and seminars on issues relating to regulation and supervision of asset management activities.Between 2012 and 2015 he ran an M&A boutique with US partners focusing on the asset management sector.

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Dimple Sahni

Managing Director Multi-Asset Impact Investing
Anthos Fund and Asset Management

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Dimple Sahni is a Managing Director Multi Asset Impact Investing at Anthos Fund & Asset Management, a values-based asset manager, rooted in a single family office. She is responsible for originating investments, managing relationships, and helping to execute strategies for the fund portfolios at Anthos Fund & Asset Management dedicated to impact investing across all asset classes including private, listed and real assets. In this defacto Mixed Asset Impact CIO role, she leads the firm’s strategy on impact portfolio construction and asset allocation. In addition, Dimple also serves on the Investment Committee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation in support of 100% mission-aligned investing. In 2021, she was recognised in PEI's (Private Equity International) global list as one of the 10 most influential women investing across asset classes. In 2022/23, she was in the top 50 list of women in Netherlands that work in Sustainable Finance. Originally from India, Dimple is an experienced investment professional – with over 20 years of experience in impact investing, investment banking and venture capital – who began her career in finance working for Goldman Sachs. She then launched a social enterprise focused on education, Epylon, which was later sold to Accenture. After working at L Capital Partners where she was a Kauffman Fellow, she shifted to impact investing at the Omidyar Network, Pierre Omidyar’s philanthropic investment arm. She continued her impact investing career with Unilever Corporate Ventures on its exploration of emerging Asia. Most recently she was fund principal at the Hattery, an early stage impact investing and design firm which was sold to Google. Dimple holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School and a BA in Economics from the University of Chicago. She is based in Amsterdam and she speaks English, Hindi and Dutch.

Ratana Tra, CFA

Senior Investment Director
Cambridge Associates AG

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Ratana Tra, CFA, is a Senior Investment Director at Cambridge Associates AG. Ratana is member of the Sustainable and Impact Investing (SII) team. Based out of the firm’s Zurich office he works across the Global Investment Research and Global Investment Services groups. He is responsible for the sourcing and diligence of fund managers with leading SII strategies across asset classes with focus on impact investing in private markets as well as supporting clients in achieving their sustainability and financial objectives by building tailor-made multi-manager portfolios. In addition, he manages existing client mandates in the ILS space.Previously, Ratana Tra was Portfolio Manager and Partner at SIGLO Capital Advisors AG (SIGLO), a Zurich-based investment advisor specialising in alternative investments such as ILS, private debt, drawdown management and impact investing. In November 2024, SIGLO was acquired by Cambridge Associates.He first joined SIGLO from 2014 to 2016 as a Senior Fund Analyst, then worked as Portfolio Manager at a microfinance-focused asset manager before returning to SIGLO as Partner, ILS Portfolio Manager and Head of Impact Investing. Prior to SIGLO, Ratana worked at Man Group, where his last role was portfolio manager of FoHF mandates.He holds a Master’s degree in Banking and Finance from the University of St. Gallen and a CEMS Master’s in International Management. He is also a CFA Charterholder.Ratana speaks Khmer, German, English, French and Spanish.

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Sir Ronald Cohen

Chair,
The Global Steering Group (GSG)

Connect UK Keynote

Sir Ronald Cohen is a pioneering philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, and social innovator, who is driving forward the global Impact Revolution. For nearly two decades, his ground-breaking initiatives have catalyzed global efforts to drive private capital to serve social and environmental good. He serves as Chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and The Portland Trust. He is a co-founder of Social Finance UK, USA, and Israel; and co-founder Chair of Bridges Fund Management and Big Society Capital. He chaired the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce (2013-2015), the UK Social Investment Task Force (2000-2010) and the UK’s Commission on Unclaimed Assets (2005-2007). In 2012 he received the Rockefeller Foundation’s Innovation Award for Social Finance. He was a co-founder and Executive Chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide LLP (1972-2005), a global private equity firm. He was a co-founder and Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association and a co-founder of the European Venture Capital Association. He is a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School; a former director of the Harvard Management Company; and formerly a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers and the University of Oxford Investment Committee. He graduated from Oxford University, where he was President of the Oxford Union. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School to which he was awarded a Henry Fellowship. Sir Ronald was born in Egypt and left as a refugee at the age of 11, when his family came to the UK.

Scilla Elworthy

Peace Builder, Three-time Nobel Prize Nominee

Connect UK Keynote

Dr Scilla Elworthy turns vision into action. Today her full attention is on developing Business Plan for Peace, resulting from her 2017 book: The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without War. She has been three times nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for developing effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policymakers worldwide and their critics, with the Oxford Research Group she founded in 1982. Peace Direct, voted ‘Best New Charity’ in 2005, goes from strength to strength under brilliant young leadership, founded by Scilla in 2002 to fund, promote and learn from local peace-builders in conflict areas. Scilla was adviser to Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sir Richard Branson in setting up ‘The Elders’, and was Awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003. She co-founded Rising Women Rising World in 2013, and FemmeQ in 2016 to establish the qualities of feminine intelligence - for men as for women - as essential for building a safer world. Her TED talk on non-violence has been viewed by over 1,400,000 people on TED and YouTube. Her book Pioneering the Possible: awakened leadership for a world that works (North Atlantic Books, 2014) continues to receive critical acclaim from experts in the field. She’s Ambassador for Peace Direct, a Councillor of the World Future Council and patron of Oxford Research Group; adviser to the Syria Campaign and the Institute for Economics and Peace. She advises the leadership of selected international corporations as well as young social entrepreneurs. Scilla is a mother, stepmother, and grandmother and loves messing about in her garden near Oxford in the UK.

Eva Halvarsson

CEO,
AP2

Connect Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area, Sweden Keynote

Since 2006, Eva Halvarsson has acted as the CEO of the Second Swedish National Pension Fund -- AP2. She heads up an organization with more than SEK 345 billion (approx. USD 43 billion) under management in virtually every asset class, and one that is active in all parts of the world; AP2 is one of northern Europe's largest pension funds.Ms. Halvarsson began her career as an accountant, progressing to the point that before joining AP2, she spent ten years working for the Swedish Government where she was responsible for the governance and management of the large and extensive portfolio of state owned companies. Eva Halvarsson has had a distinguished and varied leadership career. She took part in the working group that put into effect the Swedish Corporate Governance Code in 2004. She also spent several years, serving on the Swedish Corporate Governance Board. Eva has been a board member of several large companies and has chaired the nomination committees of some of Sweden’s largest listed companies. She recently left after serving for ten years as the Deputy Chairperson of the board of the University of Gothenburg.Presently, she is board member of the UN-PRI (the United Nation´s Principles for Responsible Investments), Vasakronan (the largest real estate company in Sweden), The Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development and The Royal Swedish Opera. In addition, she serves on the advisory board of the Women Entrepreneur´s Opportunity Facility, the first-ever global finance facility dedicated exclusively to women-owned small and medium-sized enterprises.Eva Halvarsson was born in 1962 and holds an MSc in Business and Economics from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg.

Pedro Antonio Guazo Alonso

Representative of the Secretary-General for Investments and Assets,
United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF)

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Mr. Guazo serves as the Representative of the Secretary-General for the investment of the assets of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF). Acting Representative of the Secretary-General for the investment of the assets of the UNJSPF since April 2020. Mr. Guazo is Director of the Finance Division and Deputy Controller in the Office of Programme Planning, Finance and Budget of the United Nations Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance in New York, since 2012. He served in a similar capacity as the Director of Finance and Treasury at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) in Rome (2010-2012).With over 10 years of experience in high level management positions in the United Nations system, together with more than 17 years of experience in the private and public sectors, Mr. Guazo brings a balance of deep knowledge of the United Nations system and expertise in national, regional and global practices for financial and pension fund systems.During a 15-year banking career, he contributed to the modernization of the Mexican Financial System, while serving as its regulator and supervisor. As Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Treasurer at the Federal Mortgage Bank of Mexico (2008-2010), he negotiated and managed loans from the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. He championed financial inclusion among people with low and middle incomes as CFO and Treasurer of the National Savings and Financial Services Bank of Mexico (2001-2008). His government service included posts at the Ministry of Finance (1999-2001) and at the National Banking and Securities Commission (1996-1999), as a member of its Financial Sector Supervisory Body. He started his professional career in 1993 at PricewaterhouseCoopers. A former professor of Finance at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), Mr. Guazo received an International Executive MBA from the Instituto de Empresa Business School in Madrid. He earned a master's degree in Business Economics from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and graduated from ITAM in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in Accounting.

Hazel Henderson D.Sc.Hon., FRSA,

Founder, Ethical Markets Media,
Certified B Corporation

United Kingdom Keynote

Hazel Henderson D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, founder of Ethical Markets Media, Certified B Corporation. She is a world-renowned futurist, active environmentalist, syndicated columnist, and author of award-winning Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006); Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age (2014), and other books in 800 libraries, in 20 languages, including “Planetary Citizenship “co-authored by Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda. Ethical Markets is the publisher of Henderson’s forthcoming textbook, “Mapping the Global Green Transition: 2009-2020“.

She is the producer of the global TV series “Transforming Finance“ and the Ethical Markets TV series. She created in 2004 the EthicMark® Awards for Communications Uplifting the Human Spirit & Society, showcasing positive messages to raise the ethical bar on global advertising and in 2009 the annual Green Transition Scoreboard®.

She launched the EthicMarkGEMS®.com, the first global standard certifying only gems NOT mined from Mother Earth, to phase out unnecessary global gem mining, now chemically- identical gems are cheaply available worldwide and also co-created Ethical Biomimicry Finance®. Henderson served as a cabinet-level science policy advisor to the US Office of Technology Assessment, the National Science Foundation, and the National Academy of Engineering.

Her over 400 articles appear in Harvard Business Review, New York Times, LeMonde Diplomatique, and journals in Japan, Britain, Venezuela, China, France, Australia. Honorary Member of the Club of Rome, Fellow of Britain’s Royal Society for Arts and of The World Academy of Art & Science, Henderson shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Argentinian Nobelist Pérez Esquivel. She has many honorary degrees.

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KEYNOTES & SPOTLIGHT SPEAKERS

Arjen Pasma

Cathelijne Broers

Guido Boysen

Jean-Baptiste de Franssu

Julia Balandina Jaquier

Olaf van den Heuvel

Peter Arnold

Russell Shorto

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Karlijn van Lierop

Piet Klop

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Aaron Vermeulen

Alessia Gianoncelli

Alexander Ruesch

Anita de Horde

Anthony Corrigan, CFA

Ashish Kumar

Bahaa Eddine Sarroukh

Birgitte Frost Mathiesen

Carlien Blok

Carol Tarr

Carolina Echecopar

Cecilia Pessanha

Chantal Hermans

Cheyenne Kooijman

Christian Kleboth

Christian Polman

Danielle Walsh

Dimple Sahni

Dirk Meuleman

Dolores de Rooij

Eleni Theodorou

Elizabeth Clark

Erwin Houbrechts

Eszter Vitorino Fuleky

Evalinde Eelens

Floris Lyppens

Fred Nata

Gemma Roex

Giulia Rapisarda

Glenda Levin

Graham Singh

Greg Wasserman

Guillaume Chapuis

Hans Stegeman

Hermina Popa

Jan Ståhlberg

Jens Presthus

Jesse Borst

Jesse de Klerk

Joan Larrea

Jonathan Bailey